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KA

English: speak (ORACC ePSD2 glossary, CC0)

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eBL nameKA
UnicodeU+12157 CUNEIFORM SIGN KA
Sign listsHZL 133 · LAK 318 · MZL 24 · OBZL 312 · SLLHA 15 · KWU 414 · ABZ 15
Corpus uses139,102 tokens
Live counttablets with “ka”

English gloss

dug[speak]V/tspeak6031 attestations
inim[word]Nword2476 attestations
kag[mouth]Nmouth2367 attestations
gu[voice]Nvoice1301 attestations
zu[tooth]Ntooth573 attestations

Source: ORACC ePSD2 glossary (CC0).

Readings

agu2buₓda12dag5du11dug4duga4e7emeₓen4enemenimga14gir17giri17gu3gur18i5inimiš5kakag2kak2kir4kiri3meₓnagₓpe4pi4pu5qirₓqa3sigₓsu11sugₓsumuₓsumurₓše28šed17šeg13šiₓšudₓugu6uzugₓzib4zu2zug2zuh

Also in OGSL: nundumₓ, birₓ, milibₓ, suhurₓ, /eneg/, ušₓ, zapₓ

Use by period

Archaic0
Early Dynastic10,487
Old Akkadian2,920
Ur III48,982
Old Babylonian37,687
Middle Bab./Assyr.3,275
Hittite2
Neo-Assyrian10,885
Neo-/Late Babylonian7,233

Sign list: eBL (LMU Munich), with OGSL readings and Unicode (ORACC, CC0). Counts: Unread Atlas corpus. Credits.